Nguyen Cao Ky

Nguyen Cao Ky (8 September 1930-23 July 2011) was Prime Minister of South Vietnam from 19 July 1965 to 31 October 1967, succeeding Phan Huy Quat and preceding Nguyen Van Loc.

Biography
Nguyen Cao Ky was born in Son Tay, French Indochina in 1930, and he served in the French-backed Vietnamese army during the First Indochina War before becoming head of the South Vietnamese air force. Ky participated in the 1963 South Vietnamese coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem and became prominent in junta politics in 1964 as a member of the young guard of the officer corps. He was a key player in supporting or defeating several coups during the second half of the 1960s, and he later exiled the junta leader Nguyen Khanh and became Prime Minister in 1965. He was known fro his flamboyance, his womanizing, and his risky and brash behavior, which angered the United States and the South Vietnamese public. In 1966, he crushed a Buddhist uprising resulting from his dismissal of Nguyen Chanh Thi, and he was defeated by Nguyen Van Thieu in a heated presidential election in 1967. He fled to the US after the Fall of Saigon, but he returned to Vietnam in 2004 to call for reconciliation between the communists and anti-communists. He died in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2011 at the age of 80.